Van Mildert Professor of Divinity
The Van Mildert Professor of Divinity (formerly Professor of Divinity and Ecclesiastical History) is one of the oldest chairs at
, thus one of the requirements of post holder is to be an Anglican priest or a minister in another church in communion with Church of England.The current Van Mildert Professor of Divinity is
Simon Oliver
, who took up the appointment in 2015.
List of Van Mildert professors
- The Rev Hugh James Rose (1833–1834)
- Vacant (1835-1838)
- The Rev Canon Professor Henry Jenkyns (1839-1864)
- The Rev Canon Professor Adam Storey Farrar (1864 - 1905)
- The Rev Canon Professor Richard Knowling (1905-1919)
- The Rev Canon Professor D. Dawson-Walker (1919 – 1934); former Principal of St John's College, Durham[1]
- The Rev Canon Professor Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford
- The Rev Canon Professor Michael Ramsey (1940 – 1950), later Archbishop of Canterbury [2]
- The Rev Canon Professor Stanley Lawrence Greenslade (1950 – 1958) [3]
- The Rev Canon Professor Henry Ernest William 'Hugh' Turner (1958 – 73)[4][5]
- The Rt Rev Professor Stephen Sykes (1974 – 1985) [6]
- The Rev Canon Professor Daniel W. Hardy (1986 – 1990)
- The Rev Canon Professor David Brown FBA, FRSE (1990 – 2007)
- The Rev Canon Mark McIntosh (2009 – 2014)[7]
- The Rev Canon Professor Simon Oliver (2015 – present)[8]
See also
- Lightfoot Professor of Divinity
- Bede Professor of Catholic Theology
- St Hilda Professor of Catholic Social Thought & Practice
References
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- ^ "About the Rt Revd Stephen Sykes". Archived from the original on 4 March 2007. Retrieved 14 November 2007.
- ^ "Durham Cathedral - News". Archived from the original on 29 February 2008. Retrieved 13 February 2008.
- ^ "Two new Canon Professors appointed". Department of Theology and Religion. Durham University. 12 February 2015. Retrieved 15 November 2015.